None But Heroes

Written from the perspective of a corporal in the Fourth North Carolina, we follow the invasion of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into central Maryland during the 1862 campaign that culminated in the Battle of Antietam. During the ensuing four-week campaign in Maryland, Jake Thompson and his fellow Tar Heels of Company H experience the joys of fellowship, the tedium of long marches, the wonderment of new territory and new civilian encounters.

But, as the campaign unfolded, how did...